Everybody knows Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of
#Ukraine, 4-star General Valerii Zaluzhnyi. But I'd like you to pay attention to another key person contributing to battlefield successes: 3-star General Olexander Syrskiy who's on a photo from liberated
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A few weeks ago, the Russian military launched PsyOp+InfoOp to discredit Gen. Syrskiy. They disseminated fakes about his conflict with Zaluzhniy. One top Ukr. journalist, the Censor website editor Yurii Butusov (useful idiot) joined the PsyOp but it was quickly neutralized.
The Russian PsyOp against Gen. Syrskiy proved that he currently does something extraordinary again on the battlefield. Why am I sure about it? Because he (then Maj. Gen.) helped me to survive with my battalion exiting the encirclement at Debaltseve in February 2015.
In 1982 (that was the Soviet Union), Syrskiy graduated from the top in the USSR military school based in Moscow that produced Lt. unit army commanders. Just a random guy could not enroll there. You had to have all straight As and be even smarter than that.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Syrskiy found himself in the
#Ukraine military, and step by step graduated from 2 Ukrainian military schools (with straight As) gaining his degrees first in tactics and then in combat strategies.
#Ukraine was very lucky during the first Russian invasion in 2014 because at that time Syrskiy was a deputy Commander of the Main Command Center of the Ukraine Armed Forces. A few months before the invasion, he represented Ukraine's Army in talks with NATO about reforms.
During the first Russian invasion in 2014-2015, Gen. Syrskiy was a Chief Commander of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in the
#Donbas region of
#Ukraine (in which I participated). Syrskiy organized the defense of the
#Debaltseve railway hub to force Putin to sign Minsk-2.
After the Minsk-2 accord was signed & Putin was given a
#Debaltseve railway hub, Gen. Syrskiy designed the safe withdrawal of 4,500
#Ukrainian troops from that encircled pocket (with me inside). He also formed a SpecOps unit called Bars to protect us during our withdrawal.
As it turns out, it was Gen. Syrskiy who mainly contributed to the design of the successful
#Ukrainian counteroffensive to retake the eastern part of
#Kharkiv province that began in early September and surprised many (incl. Russia).
In August 2022,
@WashingtonPost was the first among the world media to spot the talents of Gen. Syrskiy because he was a chief strategist of defense of the capital
#Kyiv. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post; iStock)
https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2022/kyiv-battle-ukraine-survival/
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Ketjun lopuksi on linkitetty Washington Postin erinomainen artikkeli nimeltä
Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital
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